[OPENJPA-652] Collaborative Testing: provide resources/tools to facilitate user community to contribute unit tests for OpenJPA

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: build / infrastructure
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Pinaki Poddar
• Created: 03/Jul/08 17:51
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29

Description

A growing body of developers are using OpenJPA and reporting their use case scenarios, error report via the Nabble posts. This process generates wealth of unstructured information.

Here is a proposal to add some more structure to it:

1. We publish and distribute the common utilities of OpenJPA's JUnit based test harness.
2. We request/mandate that submission of a JIRA report accompany a test case written in accordance to OpenJPA-JUnit based tests.

This way, we can build a diverse test corpus gradually.

To get this done, we need to
1. Document our JUnit Test harness related classes (such as SingleEMFTestCase etc.). They already are well-documented – perhaps a small write-up on 'How to write OpenJPA test' manual.
2. Extend our build so that these tests classes are distributed with their source code in a separate bundle.
3. Promote the users' to contribute their test cases

Issue Links

• depends upon: OPENJPA-123 Test framework should allow tests that are expected to fail to be checked in